5.
Food FIXES for Weight Loss
Three primary principles will normalize your weight for good.
There’s a very good chance you’re reading this book with one main goal: You,
like 53 percent of Americans, want to lose weight.
You can envision the result. You want to be healthier, feel better, have more
energy. You want to live happy and strong, not mopey and sluggish. You want a
fix for the most prevalent health problem we face: We’re too heavy.
So let’s go ahead and acknowledge that this is a weight-loss book, but not in
the traditional sense. Instead of losing weight any way you can to look great on
the outside, you need to allow foods to fix your body from the inside. That, in
turn, will normalize your weight, so that you can live in your body’s comfort
zone. After all, a healthy weight has a domino effect on many other facets of
your life, improving your heart health, your inflammation level, your moods, and
so many more measures of wellness. You’ll lighten the load on your arteries, as
well as your joints. You’ll decrease your risk of developing diabetes, cancer,
strokes, and most of the issues I cover in the chapters that follow this one. You’ll
lose weight, but more important, you’ll gain a healthy future.
Every step along the way, FIXES foods will help you. Read on to find out
how.
F (Fats with benefits): Omega-3s have been shown to reduce belly fat.
According to one study in the International Journal of Obesity, people on a
reduced-calorie diet who ate salmon (rich in omega-3s) three days a week lost
significantly more fat from their middle than those who ate the same number of